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P--' .-/. for SEPTEMBER, 1937 fi i :/ ./ f 4 " 11 il t.036.0363.2*Fgl<rf#flif#nqyk - 7,... ···.'. '•*iL· 4# ·' 414 -/ • "" • ...:809 . 7 .--./ .$ 6. :, 4 t0361 •3 7 2.- 9 t J : .:f .* r * 1 .269... •* t:f- » « - i *444, ' . )454 1/ t A Typical 0 Gauge Road TheJB&T Started as Tinplate, Met Scale at the Chicago Fair, and Now Look. By G. D. TRANTER. •HE name of the Jamestown, Bobsville & Tomsburg Ry. is derived from the three junior partners in the enterprise. The system originated many years ago as a tinplate outfit with the usual assortment of track, switches, rolling stock and accessories. The change-over to scale mqdel was the result of a visit to A Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago, where the oldest of the junior partners became interested in the various scale model systems. The construction of scale model cars began and the program was further stimulated by articles on model railway construction appearing in THE MODEL RAILROADER. It was not long before Dad became active in the project with the usual result that appropriations were made to provide for further expansion of the system. During the first steps of changing over to scale model equipment, car bodies were built to scale dimensions using the couplers, ladders and trucks salvaged from the former tinplate rolling stock. The toy locomotives were repainted a dull black, and a more subdued and realistic color scheme was adopted for depots, buildings, and other features of the layout. The next step was to eliminate the small radius curves and provide T-head rail for the proper operation of model wheels and trucks. This was solved by replacing the tinplate track with the new solid T-rail model track with inside third rail, and laying it on a roadbed of roofing paper similar to the conventional model track construction. Following the laying of the new rail, all the wheels and couplers have been changed to scale model, additional rolling stock constructed, together with the addition of strictly scale model motive equipment. The layout, covering a table 8 ft. wide by 25 ft. long, is rather interesting from the standpoint of representing a miniature industrial and manufacturing community. A steel plant, automobile factory, lumber mill, oil refinery, stock yards, grain elevator, machine tool works, coaling tower, car shops, power house and transformer station are included among the miniature industries. A terminal, several depots and loading platforms, together with a group of buildings representing a typical street scene in a small industrial town, add a touch of realism to the setting. Telegraph poles, water tanks, watchmen's shanties, crossing gates, a block 7 $. . .* ,< / I.pr -» ,·r . 4.7 S .- -*-- + ./1 1 0 • 22 4 ,/ < '' -r9 : - . 44 :01